Flower Mound Real Estate News | Outback Designs Abandons Homeowners

 Outback Designs, a former Flower Mound pool and patio builder, recently closed shop leaving many customers angry and afraid.  The majority of the customers with unfinished business are in Southlake, Grapevine, and Coppell.  With having already paid for the pools that remain unfinished, some homeowners are being threatened by Outback Designs’ subcontractors with mechanics liens unless they collect their money.  The problem they face, however, is the customers have already paid Outback, but apparently the now defunct company did not pay its subcontractors. 

  As I hear about the nightmare stories surrounding Outback Designs, I can’t help but reflect on my own personal experience with the pool company.  Just last year, my husband and I invited several pool and patio designers to our Flower Mound home to give us a bids for an outdoor living space.  My husband, Ray Rice is the Broker/Owner of Rice Capital Mortgage, and had recently completed our refinance to incorporate the new addition to our home.  We designed the patio layout ourselves about two years prior but needed some help tweeking the overall design.  The patio space would include an outdoor kitchen with a bar,fireplace, Pennsylvania blue stone deck, and stone seating. 

We finally came to a point where we felt it was a great time to move forward. Gary Ross of Outback Designs was one of the chosen companies to provide a bid along with several others. 

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How fortunate we are that we chose another company.  We didn’t quite know what it was at the time, but something just didn’t feel right.  Afterall, Gary had great ideas, was charming with the eloquent Australian accent, and was more competively priced than the others.

Although we are still waiting for the contractor we hired to finish the job, our beautiful patio is now almost complete. For more information, click here to search on Google.